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A “banken 番犬” is a guard dog, so a “bannezumi” would be a guard mouse. It looks like he performed his job swimmingly!
I am enjoying your book reports so much. I rarely read books in Japanese and applaud your enthusiasm!

That is so interesting! I hoped somebody would answer. 🙂 I actually did show the book to my husband, and asked him. He took a look at it and said he didn’t know. However, he did not actually read the book so I think he did not put two and two together. I love doing the books! I really recommend it to people in Japan, although for those with low level Japanese you will find that the picture books can be pretty hard to understand sometimes. Ganbarimasu!